Disappointment 100.

This always annoyed me. Why do so many studies have issues with setting up fair and balanced tests? Why are the sample sizes too low?

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    This is not just autism. The entire field of psychology suffers from a reproducibility problem.

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      Not just reproducibility. Also, more fundamentally, definition of what is being measured.

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          A. Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative, not exhaustive, see text):

          Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, ranging, for example, from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect; to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction, ranging, for example, from poorly integrated verbal and nonverbal communication; to abnormalities in eye contact and body language or deficits in understanding and use of gestures; to a total lack of facial expressions and nonverbal communication. Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships, ranging, for example, from difficulties adjusting behavior to suit various social contexts; to difficulties in sharing imaginative play or in making friends; to absence of interest in peers.

          In other words, if normies reject you because you don’t meet their expectations, because you don’t conform to those expectations, because you don’t “adjust” to those expectations, then you are deficient. Not them.

          Why, because majority rules? That’s not science, that’s religion.

          If that’s the foundation then how can anything built on that foundation be taken seriously?

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            Ah I see what you mean. I agree, majority rules is a philosophy, not a scientific framework.

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    All this muck about whether a particular “therapy” “works”.

    What they mean to say is they are trying to change humans to behave the way they want and expect them to behave.

    Uh, no. That’s not how respecting neurodiversity works. You can’t use “science” to force humans to meet your expectations.